Woodstock Motorcyclist Killed In Crash

September 24, 1996

A 41-year-old Woodstock plumber was killed late Sunday when his motorcycle hit a car pulling out of a driveway on Dunham Road a mile south of Illinois Highway 176 in unincorporated Marengo, a McHenry County coroner's official said Monday.

Curt Bradshaw, deputy coroner's investigator, said Bryce Farris, of 326 Beach Ave., was northbound on Dunham Road about 7:25 p.m. when a car pulled out of a driveway on the east side of the road.

The driver told sheriff's police that he did not see Farris when he started onto the roadway. As the car proceeded into the road the driver saw the motorcycle's headlights and saw the cycle swerve, Bradshaw said.

Farris and his cycle apparently struck the car on the driver's side, Bradshaw said.

He said Farris, whose body was found in the roadway, was pronounced dead at Woodstock Memorial Medical Center shortly after 8 p.m. of blunt force trauma.

Farris may have been heading home after feeding dogs that he kept in a building in Union.